PENGEMBANGAN INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL DAN SOCIAL CAPITAL MELALUI PENDIDIKAN KEWARGANEGARAAN
Abstract: Developing intellectu,,1
and social capital in preparing student for their future's role as constructive
and critical citizen is essential in a healthy de~ocratic state, School-based
civic education ,as one of means in building such ones faces some challenges,
Developing intellectual and capital, may be, is the greatest one. Thispaper
tries to propose the urgency of such effort by arguing that school"based
civiceducationCan be utilized as a means of making well informed citizen, The
mainconcepts, such as democracy, citizenship, and responsibilities of
government should be understood by citizen properly and comprehensively.
Therefore, theparamount challenge of civic education teachers is how to
implement a teaching strategy for best instilling those values, because people
are not born with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to make
democracy work; rather, theyacquire this knowledge and capacity for democratic
citizenship .only Ihroughexperience,especially through 'School-based civic educa.tion,
One of the best strategies of civic education is portfolio-based teaching
strategy. In this activity,students have an opportunity to practicing their
values related to deIrtocracy,citizen, and responsibility of government.
Besides its disadvantages, portfoliobased teaching strategy is a promising one
in order to prepare the well informedcitizen very needed in a healthy
democratic 'State. Accordingly, teachers of civiceducation should change their
circumstances by implementing this strategy
Penulis: Suyato
Kode Jurnal: jppendidikandd070014
